AI

IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering
The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and filed for a potential $6 billion at-the-market share sale, sending the stock lower in pre-market trading.

Ethereum Foundation wants the network to be the trust layer for AI
Davide Crapis, the foundation's AI lead, sees the network acting as a coordination and verification layer in an increasingly AI-mediated world.

The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans
Also: OKX and AI agents, Future AI users of blockchain and Bitcoin’s latest governance clash.

AI agents will be primary users of blockchain, NEAR co-founder says
Polosukhin argues that AI will become the primary interface layer for everything online, including crypto, abstracting away wallets, explorers and transaction hashes.

Core Scientific sells $175 million in bitcoin as AI pivot accelerates
CORZ still holds under 1,000 BTC but look to "remain opportunistic" moving forward.

MARA and Block jump double digits in pre-market trading while CoreWeave sinks
Mixed fourth quarter results highlight divergence between AI expansion plays and margin pressure.

AI rout hits software stocks, but Grayscale says blockchains stand to benefit
As AI rattles tech stocks, Grayscale's head of research said blockchains will power intelligent agents’ transactions and help offset emerging risks.

Crypto wallets for AI agents are creating a new legal frontier, says Electric Capital
As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.

Bitwise's Hunter Horsley says AI Is ‘unstoppable freight train’ for crypto, while Haun’s Monica urges caution
As artificial intelligence races ahead, some crypto executives believe it could become the force that finally pushes blockchain infrastructure into widespread use. Others aren’t convinced the leap is so straightforward.

Crypto isn't losing to AI, its just 'capitalism doing its job,' says Dragonfly
Comparisons between AI’s explosive consumer adoption and crypto’s trajectory misunderstand the nature of the products, Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi told CoinDesk in an interview.

